Current owner of Cavaretta’s Italian Deli in Canoga Park marks 30 years

Nov 22, 2013 1973

By Gregory J. Wilcox

It seems to Paul Nunneri that he blinked and 30 years flashed by. That can happen when a leap of faith morphs into a labor of love. "It has flown by, but it's been good. It's my life, you know," Nunneri said of three decades as an owner of Cavaretta's Italian Deli on Sherman Way in Canoga Park.

So banners and balloons will decorate the place Friday as Nunneri's crew, loyal customers and Chamber of Commerce officials drop by to share in the celebration. The place is about as old school as a west San Fernando Valley small business can get. Lou Cavaretta opened the store in 1959, after moving to the the Valley from Boston, and it soon became a beacon for Italians who moved from the Northeast and upper Midwest for some California sun.

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